Staff teaching on this course

Research areas: Abnormal/developmental psychology; development of fear and anxiety

Examples of topics for guided research activities or dissertations:

The role of vicarious (observational) learning in anxiety disorders

Investigating the effects of visual information on fear-related beliefs, attitudes and behaviour for novel stimuli

Skills that may be acquired: Critical review of literature; understanding issues in anxiety and associative learning research; using cognitive measures; experimental design; development of experimental materials; data collection, and statistical analysis.

Areas of interest: Anthony's main areas of teaching are quantitative research methods and applied psychology. The latter especially include ergonomics and sports psychology. He is a chartered psychologist, a full (founding) member of the BPS division of sports and exercise psychology and a registered member of the Ergonomics Society. Anthony has held research posts in the areas of stress and performance and also in human-computer interaction. In addition, he has interests in the areas of laterality and the psychology of music and of mathematics.

Research areas: Research areas: Face and emotion perception; visual attention; memory and social cognition.

The research in my laboratory aims to uncover environmental factors that modulate the way we identify emotions in others and recognize faces of unfamiliar people in different social contexts. Self-face recognition is investigated, especially how attachment style and personality traits affect the way one perceives his/her own facial features and attractiveness. Different aspects of visual attention and the visual aesthetics are also addressed.

Dr Ron Roberts is a senior lecturer in psychology. He is interested in student wellbeing and participation in the sex industry, mental health, social memory, critical psychology and social representations.